US Marine identified as one of four killed in plane crash

A US Marine hailing from California was identified by military officials as one of four people killed when a plane contracted by the US military crashed in a rice field in the southern Philippines.

Sgt Jacob Durham, 22, of Long Beach, died Thursday in the crash of an aircraft that was conducting a routine mission “providing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance support at the request of our Philippine allies,” officials at Camp Pendleton, California, said in a statement released on Sunday.